Synopses & Reviews
This comprehensive text covers the use of SAS for epidemiology and public health research. Developed with students in mind and from their feedback, the text addresses this material in a straightforward manner with a multitude of examples. It is directly applicable to students and researchers in the fields of public health, biostatistics and epidemiology. Through a "hands on" approach to the use of SAS for a broad number of epidemiologic analyses, readers learn techniques for data entry and cleaning, categorical analysis, ANOVA, and linear regression and much more. Exercises utilizing real-world data sets are featured throughout the book. SAS screen shots demonstrate the steps for successful programming. SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is an integrated system of software products provided by the SAS institute, which is headquartered in California. It provides programmers and statisticians the ability to engage in many sophisticated statistical analyses and data retrieval and mining exercises. SAS is widely used in the fields of epidemiology and public health
Synopsis
Developed with students in mind, this comprehensive book covers the use of SAS for epidemiology and public health research in a straightforward manner with a multitude of examples. Includes SAS screen shots, and exercises using real-world data sets.
About the Author
Dr. Charles DiMaggio is associate professor in the departments of anesthesiology and epidemiology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He is an injury epidemiologist whose
Table of Contents
Introduction.- The SAS Environment.- Working with SAS Data.- Preliminary Procedures.- Manipulating Data.- Descriptive Statistics.- Histograms and Plots.- Categorical Data Analysis I and II.- Cleaning and Assessing Continuous Data using MEANS.- ANOVA.- Correlation.- Linear Regression.- Regression Diagnostics.- Solutions.